Darcie's blog: April 2019

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

April 2019 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Hello Preschool Families April 2019

We are beginning a new month and learning about Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, with several fun things planned for this month. The afternoon group will also have Recycle Rhonda come to visit on April 16 and she will leave materials for me to reteach the lesson to the morning class.

** I will also post photos of books and different areas on the blog**

The sensory area will have black beans and recycled items such as: small boxes, toilet paper tubes, baby food jars, water bottle, yogurt container, soda can, V-8 can, baby doll clothes, and plastic bags to sort in the correct bins - plastic, glass, paper, metal, compost and not recyclable. A great way to practice sorting and helping the environment.

The math and literacy areas have spelling different pet cards to spell with letter tiles, recycle syllable clip it cards, ten frame recycle cards, sorting caps, and recycled caps to count on numbered bins. The children will sort different items onto the reduce, reuse, and recycled cards as well as sorting items that are healthy and harmful to our earth. Along with our normal math journals, writing work, and puzzles.

We will use recycled items in our water table and fun pet cookie cutters and basic tools with our playdough.

The block area has different size boxes to build with along with other items like animals, cars, and people. In years past the children have loved building with these types of blocks so hopefully it is a hit again. If you have any shoe boxes or tissue boxes, we would love to add them to our collection.

Our dramatic play area will become a Pet Store - the children will be encouraged to adopt a pet. We have many different types of pets such as: dogs, cats, bunnies, fish, lizards, birds, hermit crabs, snakes, mice, and even a pet rock. Also, for sale at the store will be food, treats, and products to care for your pet. I think the children will have a BLAST exploring this area and using their imaginations. The pet store will be open for the whole month of April.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Wednesday April 10 - NO preschool

April 22 - 26 NO SCHOOL Spring Break

Hopefully the weather continues to get warmer and the sun shines, so we can play outside.

WHATS NEXT?? The month of May we will be discussing Farm and Frogs. I have applied to the UVM extension program to hatch eggs into chickens. This is my first time with this activity, so I am hoping that it is a success. Wish us Luck!

Thank you so much for all your help and support in the classroom.

Darcie

Books this week

Sensory tables

Sorting out items into plastic, metal, glass, paper, compost and not recyclable.

Recycled items to use with water.

More fun

The children decorated this big box last week to use in our classroom. They all had a blast coloring and decorating the box....as well as playing inside and using their imagination.

Also a light table to build with big legos. The children enjoy building a structure and placing it on the light to see the different LEGO bricks light up.